Background & Aims: Celiac disease or gluten-sensitive enteropathy is a relatively uncommon digestive disease. Moreover, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional bowel disorder. Some IBS patients have celiac disease, with similar IBS symptoms in addition to some serious complications. The only possible treatment for this condition is changing the patients diet (gluten free diet). Gi...

background and objective : irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder. sleep disturb-ances are known to be common among individuals with this syndrome. this study aimed to determine the relationship between sleep quality and severity of intestinal symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome. materials and methods : this cross-sectional study was carried out among 201 subj...

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(3) What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to two distinct disorders – Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).1 These two disorders have distinct clinical and pathological features but their cause is unknown. In patients with large bowel disease only there may be difficulty disti...

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(3) What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to two distinct disorders – Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).1 These two disorders have distinct clinical and pathological features but their cause is unknown. In patients with large bowel disease only there may be difficulty disti...

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(3) What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to two distinct disorders – Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).1 These two disorders have distinct clinical and pathological features but their cause is unknown. In patients with large bowel disease only there may be difficulty disti...

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(3) What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to two distinct disorders – Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).1 These two disorders have distinct clinical and pathological features but their cause is unknown. In patients with large bowel disease only there may be difficulty disti...

AIM To identify simple, objective, accurate histological criteria for distinguishing acute infective-type colitis, chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease, and irritable bowel syndrome on rectal biopsy in patients with acute onset diarrhoea at first presentation, one to 10 weeks after onset. METHODS Cell counts and measurements of mucosal architecture were made on initial rectal biopsie...

In Crohn disease, bowel-preserving surgery is necessary to prevent short bowel syndrome due to repeated operations. This study aimed to determine the remnant small bowel length cut-off and to evaluate the clinical factors related to nutritional status after small bowel resection in Crohn disease.We included 394 patients (69.3% male) who underwent small bowel resection for Crohn disease between ...

Because unexplained 'functional symptoms' are a major cause of referral to gastroenterologists, the efficiency of the medical history to lead to a positive diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome, without resorting to the use of expensive tests, remains a key question. Whilst the six criteria of Manning et al are widely used, data on their validity in discriminating irritable bowel syndrome from ...

Crohn disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the entire gastrointestinal tract but is most frequently localized to the large and small bowel. Small bowel endoscopy helps with the differential diagnosis of CD in suspected CD patients. Early diagnosis of CD is preferable for suspected CD conditions to improve chronic inflammatory infiltrates, fibrosis. Small bowel endos...